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Army to allow soldiers to wear hijab, turbans, and religious beards
American Thinker ^ | 6 Jan 2017 | Rick Moran

Posted on 01/06/2017 6:42:05 AM PST by mandaladon

Over the last 8 years, in addition to fighting Obama's numerous wars, the US army has served as a gigantic social sciences lab under this president.

Gays can serve openly, as can transgender people. The government will even pay for some gender reassignment surgeries for trans soldiers. Women are now eligible for some combat roles, including special forces.

It seems that President Obama has cared more about imposing his cultural agenda on the military rather than winning wars.

Now, in the waning days of the administration, the army has decided to take the idea of a "uniform" and turn it on its head. If approved at the brigade level, Muslim and Sikh soldiers can now wear the hijab, as well as grow beards for religious reasons.

Army Times:

Since 2009, religious accommodation requests received by the Army have largely been from soldiers wanting to wear a hijab or a Sikh turban or patka with uncut beard and hair, according to the directive.

"Based on the successful examples of soldiers currently serving with these accommodations," Army Secretary Eric Fanning wrote in the directive, he decided to move forward with those accommodations as long as the colors match the uniform of the day.

"The Army has reviewed its policies to ensure we allow every opportunity for qualified soldiers to serve, regardless of their faith background," Lt. Col. Randy Taylor, an Army spokesman, said in a statement. "We believe in preserving the First Amendment right of free exercise of religion for those who want to serve in the U.S. Army."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: armys; defensedepartment; dod; isi; ludicrous; obama; trump
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To: mandaladon

I think that SecDef Mattis will have some input on this in due course.


21 posted on 01/06/2017 7:09:52 AM PST by Howie66 ("Tone down the tagline please." - Admin Moderator)
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To: mandaladon

I hope all this crap ends in 2 weeks.


22 posted on 01/06/2017 7:10:52 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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To: mandaladon

well, maybe for the next 14 days.


23 posted on 01/06/2017 7:15:15 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident #MAGA)
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To: mandaladon

Then you claim that you are undeployable because your religiously required beard makes a gas mask useless.


24 posted on 01/06/2017 7:17:43 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: mandaladon

I’m wondering how the Sikhs are going to fit their beard into a gas mask. Wasn’t that one of the major reasons for the shaving requirement?


25 posted on 01/06/2017 7:19:20 AM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~ur/base/*)
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To: Cowboy Bob

While I respect the Sikh tradition as soldiers, unlike yarmulkes which can be worn under a cover and hidden, the turban cannot be worn under the standard uniform nor can the hijab. It’s a uniform for a reason unless they want to form separate units with those variations. These are US soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines not Sikh soldiers, or Moslem soldiers. This is a choice the individual will have to make to comply or not serve. They are not drafted, they are volunteering so perhaps they should not be accepted if they set preconditions.


26 posted on 01/06/2017 7:20:17 AM PST by JMS
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To: mandaladon

Not anymore. All of this comes to an end in 2 weeks.


27 posted on 01/06/2017 7:28:26 AM PST by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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To: mandaladon
The term "uniform" means more than the clothes.
It signifies a purpose and shared goals. Cohesion.
Deviating from the uniform code signals that you're not really on board.

28 posted on 01/06/2017 7:28:52 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Me too.


29 posted on 01/06/2017 7:44:58 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: vikingd00d

I was thinking the new recruits would have fun during the gas mask training. :)


30 posted on 01/06/2017 7:59:17 AM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: mandaladon

Anything goes ...as long as you don’t profess your Christian faith.

Welcome to a post-christian America, brought to you by our know it all leftist Academia.


31 posted on 01/06/2017 8:06:35 AM PST by exPBRrat
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To: USMCPOP

Won’t be long and our military people won’t be unable to determine who is the enemy and who is not. Can you imagine seeing an entire football team with each player wearing something different from the other players on his team? CHAOS! I hope Trump will change back to a “standard” uniforms and stop all the politically correct crap.


32 posted on 01/06/2017 8:10:52 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: mandaladon

So claims the openly gay Army Secretary.


33 posted on 01/06/2017 8:13:32 AM PST by zerosix ( Native Sunflower)
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To: zerosix

Pretty much everyone in the Obama Administration is gay.

Same with Hillary Clinton’s inner circle


34 posted on 01/06/2017 8:17:06 AM PST by rdcbn (.... when Poets buy guns, tourist season is over ......d)
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To: mandaladon

Barack Hussein Obama said, “tear down that military.”


35 posted on 01/06/2017 8:22:42 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: rdcbn

It’s actually bigger than that - it’s “infected” almost all staff across the board in Congress - that’s why everything coming out of that cesspool is tilted toward the “gay culture!”


36 posted on 01/06/2017 8:51:19 AM PST by zerosix ( Native Sunflower)
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To: mandaladon

Anyone remember how they purged even scripture on rifles then burned hundreds of thousands of Bibles in Afghanistan? Meanwhile four times more soldiers have been killed there since soeter0 took over. Is the army going to just scrap the uniform code(s) to be PC? Lip service or real?


37 posted on 01/06/2017 9:01:33 AM PST by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: mandaladon

This isn’t really new. I did a short TDY to Fort Bliss back in the 70s and noted that a number of soldiers in the 3rd ACR were Sikhs and wore beards and turbans while in uniform.


38 posted on 01/06/2017 10:29:47 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: mandaladon

Those responsible should be discharged.


39 posted on 01/06/2017 10:47:46 AM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: vikingd00d
I’m wondering how the Sikhs are going to fit their beard into a gas mask. Wasn’t that one of the major reasons for the shaving requirement?

Something which I had never heard before popped up in a recent documentary about Adolf Hitler. During WWI he had a big mustache, almost a handlebar. During a gas attack, his mask leaked because of the big mustache. Thereafter, he shaved it down to what he wore thereafter.

40 posted on 01/06/2017 11:03:19 AM PST by DeFault User
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